The Presentation: Pat gave an informative and interesting introduction to the InterPlanetary File System. The IPFS website describes this as: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open…. Read more2022-01-08 Meeting

The Discussion: We talked about many topics including sources for TV viewing, unwanted phone calls, managing unwanted phone calls, how caller ID works, Gib’s idea for pre-approval of callers, and Pat’s new toy, a Pineapple Wifi device. Here are some… Read more2021-12-11 Meeting

The Presentation: Carl did a major belly-flop as he entertained and amused the group.  The live demonstration attempted to show how to take a Raspberry Pi image and customize it with ssh keys and network settings to allow a headless… Read more2021-11-13 Meeting

The Meeting: For the first time in over a year we were able to meet at the Westland Public Library. Since Carl was not able to attend, the presentation about ssh keys, putty, and the Windows ssh program was postponed…. Read more2021-09-11 Meeting

Online Meeting: We discussed services providing tv shows and movies.  This included various devices and software such as Roku, Plex, Kodi, StreamIO, YouTube, Amazon Video and locast.  The upshot?  There are several good options for a variety of situations. The… Read more2021-05-08 Meeting

Online Meeting: We discussed the possibility of meeting at the library again.  The CDC is no longer discouraging small meetings, provided standard precautions (social distancing and wearing face masks) are taken.  The library is not yet allowing us to schedule… Read more2021-04-10 Meeting

Online Meeting: This was our “road trip” session powered by Gib’s rental car and his wife’s amusing banter.  From the cell towers in Mississippi  came some insight and even a hilarious opinion of the Mach-E from a real Mustang lover. … Read more2021-03-13 Meeting

Online Meeting: We engaged in a lively discussion that intermixed with a walk down memory lane and the resuscitation of an old DOS hard drive.  One attendee had a 386 that would boot from a floppy disk, but not from… Read more2021-02-13 Meeting

Online Meeting: Not having a planned presentation made the online conversation more interesting.  We talked about several topics including these. Mustangs, Mach-Es and electric cars Pat’s odd experience with multiple monitors The reliability, quality and lifespan of SSDs Availability of… Read more2021-01-09 Meeting

Online Meeting: We enjoyed a spirited and informative conversation that covered many topics.  We covered mundane topics like buying groceries and store brands versus brand name products.  Without discussing politics, we talked about the Electoral College and the history of… Read more2020-12-10 Meeting